Boris Giltburg stepped in at the last minute to replace Evgeny Kissin, who cancelled due to ill health, and played Prokofiev’s Third and Rachmaninov’s Second Concerto with the London Philharmonia at the Royal Festival Hall on November 17 under the baton of Lawrence Foster.
Giltburg received excellent reviews and was featured in The Times:
“bouncing on his piano stool, Giltburg attacked the [Prokofiev] with crisp staccato and precision power… There was delicate pedalling in the middle movement’s theme and variations, and the finale’s coda thrilled, powered by knuckled glissandos.”
The Times, Mark Pullinger